Working as part of a three-year, US$50 million Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) grant, researchers at Sun Microsystems Inc. are aiming to avoid the kind of errors that caused the Patriot missile defense system failure.
Dan Bricklin fostered the PC revolution when he helped create VisiCalc for Apple Computer Inc. almost 25 years ago. It and its successors, Lotus 1-2-3 and Excel, were the original
The next update to Microsoft Corp.'s Windows CE .Net OS, which has been given the code name McKendric, will ship before the middle of 2003 and include several new features, a company executive said at the Microsoft Embedded DevCon 2003 conference in Taipei.